Blurring the line between poetry and picture book with its highly emotive visual narrative, FIVE STAGES OF LOVE marks a delectably powerful poetic debut by author and artist Aridam S. Dojie.

Each illustrated, black-and-white spread whispers a solemn secret as art weaves through words and rhymes caress ink, holding heartbreak prisoner while you witness a woman fall in love with her worst enemy, her nemesis — herself.

Grab a copy and dive into this deeply personal collection of equal parts poetry and art. You’re warmly invited — adult you and little you, together — to the FIVE STAGES OF LOVE.

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Sitting with her grief, intellectualizing it, even as she forced herself to feel the pesky little thing through its five dreaded stages of denial, anger, bargain, depression, and finally, acceptance, brought the author face to face with another, far more formidable emotion that required processing in its own...